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<td class="v">3:1</td>
<td>My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.</td>
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<td class="v">3:2</td>
<td>For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.</td>
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<td class="v">3:3</td>
<td>Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.</td>
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<td class="v">3:4</td>
<td>Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.</td>
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<td class="v">3:5</td>
<td>Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!</td>
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<td class="v">3:6</td>
<td>And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.</td>
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<td class="v">3:7</td>
<td>For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:</td>
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<td class="v">3:8</td>
<td>But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.</td>
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<td class="v">3:9</td>
<td>Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.</td>
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<td class="v">3:10</td>
<td>Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.</td>
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<td class="v">3:11</td>
<td>Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?</td>
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<td class="v">3:12</td>
<td>Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.</td>
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<td class="v">3:13</td>
<td>Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.</td>
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<td class="v">3:14</td>
<td>But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.</td>
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<td class="v">3:15</td>
<td>This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.</td>
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<td class="v">3:16</td>
<td>For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.</td>
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<td class="v">3:17</td>
<td>But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.</td>
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<td class="v">3:18</td>
<td>And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.</td>
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